From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27186 invoked by alias); 12 Jun 2014 21:58:29 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 27175 invoked by uid 89); 12 Jun 2014 21:58:29 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-yh0-f47.google.com Received: from mail-yh0-f47.google.com (HELO mail-yh0-f47.google.com) (209.85.213.47) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 21:58:27 +0000 Received: by mail-yh0-f47.google.com with SMTP id v1so1477396yhn.34 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 14:58:25 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.236.88.13 with SMTP id z13mr19977976yhe.34.1402610305730; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 14:58:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.170.79.66 with HTTP; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 14:58:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20140526201210.GB3903@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> References: <20140526201210.GB3903@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 21:58:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Package file lists archive From: Steven Penny To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-06/txt/msg00141.txt.bz2 On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > And, frankly, I think it's a bad idea to keep a monolithic list of > packages available for people to download anyway. I would counter that Debian and others who use "apt-get" already do this, Example http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/wheezy/main/Contents-amd64.gz > This file maps each file available in the Debian GNU/Linux system to > the package from which it originates. It includes packages from the > DIST distribution for the ARCH architecture. > You can use this list to determine which package contains a specific > file, or whether or not a specific file is available. The list is > updated weekly, each architecture on a different day. so maybe you could voice your opinion to them as well. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple